In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
manchet (countable and uncountable, plural manchets)
(Scotland, obsolete) A type of high-quality bread made from flour.
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Man"chet, n.
Definition: Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic] Bacon. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 June 2025
(noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; “he is the owner of a chain of restaurants”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.